jemadar
Americannoun
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any of various government officials.
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the supervisor of a staff of servants.
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an officer in a sepoy regiment, corresponding in rank to a lieutenant.
noun
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a native junior officer belonging to a locally raised regiment serving as mercenaries in India, esp with the British Army (until 1947)
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an officer in the Indian police
Etymology
Origin of jemadar
1755–65; < Urdu jamadar, variant of jamdar < Persian < Arabic jamʿ aggregation + Persian dār holding, leader of
Example Sentences
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A body of the sultan’s Belooch soldiers, under a jemadar, or officer, and a party of slaves armed with muskets, formed their escort.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
"Gone an hour!" shouted the enraged jemadar; "who told them of the attack?"
From In Times of Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Then summoning a smart young jemadar with whom he had talked a good deal during the journey, he asked him to read the chit.
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy
Early after dawn, the jemadar, with his guard, advanced to meet us, welcomed us with sundry complimentary discharges of their matchlocks, and escorted us to their post.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
After recording a lot of contradictory evidence, de R. adjourned the case, whereupon the Madras Infantry jemadar pleaded on behalf of the havildar.
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by C. Boden Kloss
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